Generation X and Younger Back Obama


	Generation X and Younger Back Obama

dmegivern

11-22-2007 10:45 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c7f7ccc3-0927-4c3d-9bb7-d305386e7a12/7589CD1B-407B-472A-9E8C-1059692EAFAF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071203/chaudhry" href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071203/chaudhry" style="font-size: 11px;">www.thenation.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071203/chaudhry"><H1 class="bckt_hdln_xl">
      Will the Real Generation Obama Please Stand Up?
   </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071203/chaudhry">
Obama's book <I>The Audacity of Hope</I> makes it clear just whom
he's calling old: "In the back-and-forth between Clinton and Gingrich,
and in the elections of 2000 and 2004, I sometimes felt as if I were
watching the psychodrama of the baby boom generation--a tale rooted in
old grudges and revenge plots hatched on a handful of college campuses
long ago--played out on the national stage," writes Obama. It's a theme
he's returned to with increasing frequency lately. "There's no doubt
that we represent the kind of change Senator Clinton can't deliver on.
And part of it's generational,"</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071203/chaudhry">Generation Y
may hold the numerical key to a Democratic victory in
future elections, but it's those pesky thirty- and fortysomethings who
seek to shape the future of the party and redefine the word
"progressive."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071203/chaudhry">The X-er economic philosophy
was </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071203/chaudhry">described</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071203/chaudhry">as "balanced-budget populism," combining fiscal
responsibility with a concern for income inequality.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7589CD1B-407B-472A-9E8C-1059692EAFAF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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